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General Software Discussion / Re: Mosaizer and Textaizer - Cool Freeware Graphics Effects with Mosaics and Text

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 10:33 AM »

Looks nice

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Living Room / Re: Keeping track of software license/serial keys

« Last post by f0dder on November 17, 2007, 06:45 AM »

You could use my fSekrit to store registration keys :p - I personally use it for passwords for various things now.

-f0dder (March 19, 2006, 06:25 AM)

I have an fSekrit file with all my registration keys in it; another with various website logins.  Good stuff.

-allen (November 17, 2007, 06:02 AM)

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Living Room / Re: Feedback on New Fun Software Please

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 06:04 PM »

You need 667 - satan's retarded brother.

I wonder which one is the number of the breast?

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Living Room / Re: Sherlock Holmes and Texefex

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 12:08 PM »

The hole is there because the figures aren't the exact same size/shape, it's a pretty old trick.

For the second pic, same color, brain trick

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General Software Discussion / Re: Implementing Leopard features for Vista?

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 12:05 PM »

The hardlinks point to the data in the backup drive. If the data is modified, the new file is going to get copied as well when the backup is made.

-MrCrispy (November 16, 2007, 11:42 AM)

Ah, righty - missed that part. Hardlinks obviously don't work across partition boundaries either

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General Software Discussion / Re: Implementing Leopard features for Vista?

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 05:45 AM »

There's a thing I've been pondering about wrt. timemachine/whatever use of hardlinks to avoid making backup of unchanged data...

What happens when the file *is* modified, and you look at the "backed up" hardlink from yesterday? Won't you get the changed data, then?

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ProcessTamer / Re: New Feature: Process Time Watcher and Killer.

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 05:41 AM »

You can get some info with GetProcesssTimes() and GetProcessIoCounters(). For memory stats, you'll have to make some choices. If you don't particularly care about Win9x, you can use GetProcessMemoryInfo() from PSAPI... otherwise I guess you'll have to use the Performance Monitoring set of APIs, but that isn't very comfortable to work with.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to open a 700MB picture?

« Last post by f0dder on November 16, 2007, 05:18 AM »

Now that's HUGE. And using Photoshop... god damn, he used Google's servers or something

I'll keep the "small" one though, it makes a beautiful wallpaper. I'm downloading the other one to see what happens (almost 2 hours to finish).

-Lashiec (November 15, 2007, 01:12 PM)

Where do you download the image though? :-s

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ProcessTamer / Re: New Feature: Process Time Watcher and Killer.

« Last post by f0dder on November 15, 2007, 06:45 AM »

tranglos: wouldn't be very hard coding something like that... of course it would take a slight amount of system resources to monitor the app, but if you poll only each 100ms or something you wouldn't be able to feel the speed hit...

graphing the resource usage is the only "complicated" bit, personally I'd just export the data in .csv format and use excel :]

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to open a 700MB picture?

« Last post by f0dder on November 15, 2007, 06:41 AM »

Oh boy, that's huge! :O

The largest I've seen was... I think it was a satellite image of earth, pretty huge jpeg image (70 megs or so?).

It isn't necessarily too bad opening a 700meg TIF file, since they're usually uncompressed (which makes it easier to read only parts of it). I'm going to grab it and see how ACDsee32 handles it - bless the server for being able to deliver >2mbyte/sec to me

EDIT: took 5½ minute to grab the file, and after waiting 5 minutes for acdsee32 2.4 to open it, I killed the process... it had one of my cores maxed out for the entire 5 minutes, but only used ~5 megabytes of memory, so something tells me it's simply not able to deal with TIF files that huge.

Paint Shop Pro 8 gives me this message:

Not enough memory to complete this operation; close one or more documents or applications and try again.  If this does not correct the problem, you may need to adjust your memory settings or work on a smaller document.

Perhaps because I run my system without paging file, and only have 2 gigs of memory

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by f0dder on November 14, 2007, 09:01 AM »

Yep, JennyB, it was SharpKeys I was thinking of

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2007, 09:51 AM »

I'd rather use the 2k built-in than autohotkey for this... doesn't require something continously running etc.

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Living Room / Re: Buy a new harddrive, get a virus

« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2007, 08:21 AM »

i remember one time when i returned a defective hard-disk to be replaced by a "brand-new" one which contained accounts reports generated by a SAP program..

-lanux128 (November 13, 2007, 12:23 AM)

Hm, I've never seen a harddrive company that says you get a brand new drive, the ones I've dealt with has "refurbished" written in the fine print. But it does suck.

Infected disks & peripherals is nothing new anyway, it's happened a number of times. Yet another reason to turn off sucky autorun.

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by f0dder on November 13, 2007, 08:14 AM »

I'm using Dvorak so I don't want to change layout again, but I'm almost convinced about making Caps Lock a backspace. Is it possible to do that without affecting the rest of the keyboard?

-JennyB (November 12, 2007, 11:22 AM)

Should be, on win2k and onwards the keyboard can be reprogrammed at pretty low level just by changing a registry key - I'm pretty sure somebody posted a tool here on DC for easily changing the mappings.

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Living Room / Re: Technology Myths

« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2007, 06:30 AM »

Zaine: linux is hard to learn, if you want to do more than use the preinstalled stuff. If you're just going to use it at regular user level, then sure it's easy enough... but beyond that, things very quickly become very messy.

And it's a big fat lie that you never need to defrag on linux (and it has to do with filesystems rather than linux itself). Thing is that most filesystems available on linux doesn't have defragmenters, so you're stuck with copying all data to another partition, wiping the partition you want to "defrag", and moving back the data again...

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General Software Discussion / Re: SyncBackSE vs. SuperFlexible

« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2007, 06:27 AM »

DBC: thanks for mentioning that app, not many backup/sync apps seem to have realtime driver-based mode, which is what I'm interested in.

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Signs You're Coding Too Much

« Last post by f0dder on November 12, 2007, 06:18 AM »

Heh, converting degrees celcius to radians doesn't make much sense

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Living Room / Re: To wide-screen or not to wide-screen

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 07:18 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Okay, I think I'm sold.

-Ralf Maximus (November 11, 2007, 06:56 PM)

That's not a monitor. That's a TV with DVI input, most likely. Sure would be nice...

-Deozaan (November 11, 2007, 07:12 PM)

Not that big a difference these days, although "TVs" tend to be larger, have more inputs, and possibly a couple of tuners as well. But with DVI and HDMI inputs, the lines begin to blur...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: BruteKill hotkey

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 07:17 PM »

On my XP box, Ctrl+Alt+Del brings up the win2k-style "Windows Security" box, that lets me lock computer, log off, shut down, change password, task manager, cancel.

<3 windows UI in classic mode... and there's a reason I haven't let process explorer "Options->Replace Task Manager"

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Living Room / Re: To wide-screen or not to wide-screen

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 07:01 PM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Okay, I think I'm sold.

-Ralf Maximus (November 11, 2007, 06:56 PM)

The girl or the monitor?

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Living Room / Re: Free graphic adventure craziness

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 04:58 PM »

Hm, I never got around to playing the episode releases of Sam&Max, I ought to wrestle some free time and have fun with it

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 01:41 PM »

The story of QWERTY is so damn sad

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Living Room / Re: Top 10 Signs You're Coding Too Much

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 01:37 PM »

I'm pretty guilty of #1 and #2 (who needs french, german or anything else when you have English, C, C++, Pascal, Assembly, LUA, Python, Perl, ..... ?)

As for #3, I'd say they're not too far off sizewise

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Living Room / Re: The Dvorak Zine - fun comic telling story of the Dvorak keyboard

« Last post by f0dder on November 11, 2007, 07:21 AM »

I've been thinking about learning DVORAK as well - not to increase typing speed (it's quite sufficient ), but to have less strain... but programming is one of my concerns too, I recall looking at the dvorak keymap and thinking the programming chars weren't laid out nicely.

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General Software Discussion / Re: File synchronization: moving away from incremental backup (HELP!)

« Last post by f0dder on November 10, 2007, 05:05 PM »

SFFS delta backup probably has to read through the entire file to check which range(s) have changed... that's take some time. But I haven't read up on how it does it, so it's just a guess